Last month, The Morning Call had pictures of 12 men who are murderers on the front page. Gov. Wolf announced he had a moratorium on the death penalty in Pennsylvania. The men have no remorse for what they have done. Most of their appeals are that they are mentally unstable. The system is not broken. It is the misuse of the system that is broken. The liberal lawyers and Gov. Wolf claim it costs more for the appeals than to stay in prison for life. While I was a police officer in Bethlehem, my partner, Philip Fahy, was murdered in 1969 by a man named Bebley Wells Jr. I shot the murderer three times, and he survived and was given life in prison, not the death penalty. I estimate that at...

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I wholeheartedly oppose the death penalty moratorium put in place by Gov. Wolf. It is senseless and stupid. Let the perpetrators pay for what they did, and let's put that money to a better use.I am, however, all for raising the minimum wage in...

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